DMAIC Essentials

LSS Instructor Materials-DMAIC Essentials

The following 11 topics are included in the DMAIC Essentials Instructor Materials, typically suited for Champions, Green Belts and Black Belts:

Six Sigma Projects (35 slides)

Project Focus

Is it a Six Sigma Project?

Customer Focused Projects

Selecting Projects

Estimating Project Benefits

Overview of DMAIC methodology

Project Reporting

DEFINE Stage Tools & Objectives (31 slides)

Define Stage Objectives

Project Charter: Use and Development

Work Breakdown Structure.

Pareto Diagrams.

Process Maps.

SIPOC

Matrix Diagrams

DEFINE: Metrics & Deliverables (37 slides)

Critical to Quality (CTQ) Metrics

Throughput Yield (and comparison to traditional yield)

Rolled Throughput Yield

Normalized Yield

DPMO: Use and Misuse

Sigma Level

Critical to Schedule (CTS) Metrics

Cycle Time

Process Cycle Efficiency

Process Velocity

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

Relation of CTQ and CTS Metrics to Critical to Cost (CTC) Metrics

DEFINE: Project Financials (27 slides)

Cost of Poor Quality

Quantifying Project Benefits

CTC Calculations.

DEFINE: Project Scheduling (21 slides)

Scheduling Project Activities & Events

Gantt Chart

Critical Path Analysis / Activity Network Diagram.

PERT Analysis

DEFINE: Change Management and Six Sigma Teams (39 slides)

Problems with Change

Achieving Buy-In

Team Formation, Rules & Responsibilities

Stages of Team Development

Overcoming Problems

Consensus Building

Affinity Diagram

Nominal Group Technique

Prioritization Matrix

Measure Stage Tools and Objectives (44 slides)

Measure Stage Objectives

Process Definition (Flowcharts, Process Maps, SIPOC)

Metric Definition

Establishing Process Baseline

Enumerative vs. Analytic Statistics.

Process Variation (Deming's Red Bead)

Benefits of Control Charts.

Requirements vs. Control (Tampering)

Control Chart as Process Baseline Tool

Analyze Stage Tools & Objectives (32 slides)

Analyze Stage Objectives

Definition of Waste

Analyzing Process for NVA

Cycle Efficiencies

Lead Time and Velocity

Takt Time

Methods to Increase Velocity

Standardization

Optimization

Spaghetti Diagrams

Level Loading

When are Batches More Efficient?

Setup Reductions

Improve Stage Tools and Objectives (33 slides)

Improve Stage Objectives

Tools to Prioritize Improvement Opportunities

Defining New Process Flow

Lean Tools to reduce NVA and Achieve Flow

5S

Level Loading

Tools to Define & Mitigate Failure Modes

PDPC

FMECA

Preventing Failures

Reference to Tools for Defining New Process Levels

Control Stage Tools & Objectives (19 slides)

Control Stage Objectives

Methods of Control

Control Plans

Training

Measuring Improvement

Design for Six Sigma Overview (32 slides)

Methodology

Tools for DFSS

System, Parameter and Tolerance Designs

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